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The meal as a performance: food and meal practices beyond health and nutrition
(Ageing & Society;Volume 38, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-30)The proportion of elderly people in the population is increasing, presenting a number of new challenges in society. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate how elderly persons with motoric eating difficulties ... -
Meaning in Life for Patients With Severe Dementia: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals' Interpretations
(Frontiers in Psychology;September 2021 | Volume 12 | Article 701353, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09-01)The need for meaning in life is a key aspect of being human, and a central issue in the psychology of religion. Understanding experience of meaning for persons with severe dementia is challenging due to the impairments ... -
Meaning in life for patients with severe dementia: A qualitative study of healthcare professionals' interpretations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The need for meaning in life is a key aspect of being human, and a central issue in the psychology of religion. Understanding experience of meaning for persons with severe dementia is challenging due to the impairments ... -
The meaning of dignity when the patients' bodies are falling apart
(Nursing Open;Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-02)Background People with advanced cancer disease experience great bodily changes due to disease or treatment. They tend to feel ashamed when their bodies are subjected to such changes and they feel their dignity is ... -
Meaningful Events in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology Research Approaches: A 6-Year Literature Review
(Brazilian Journal of Behavior Analysis;volum 17, issue 1, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The concept of meaning has been a traditional object of scientific study over recent decades within the behavioral and cognitive psychology fields. The former defines meaningful events in terms of their existing or acquired ... -
Meaningful Stimuli and the Enhancement of Equivalence Class Formation
(Skriftserien avhandling;(2), Peer reviewed; Doctoral thesis, 2015)After the direct training of baseline conditional relations, the emergence of derived relations that have the properties of reflexivity, symmetry and transitivity documents the formation of equivalence classes. Studies ... -
Measure of activity performance of the hand (MAP-Hand) questionnaire: linguistic validation, cultural adaptation and psychometric testing in people with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK
(BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders;19:275, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-31)Background: Developed in the Norway, the Measure of Activity Performance of the Hand (MAP-Hand) assesses 18 activities performed using the hands. It was developed for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using patient ... -
Measurement instruments for parental stress in the postpartum period: A scoping review
(PLOS ONE;17 (3): e0265616, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03-18)Background: Parenting stress is a particular type of stress that is conceptualized as a negative psychological response to the numerous obligations associated with raising children. Despite a considerable increase in ... -
Measurement properties of the high-level mobility assessment tool for mild traumatic brain injury
(Physical Therapy;93(7), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Background. The High-Level Mobility Assessment Tool (HiMAT) was developed to quantify balance and mobility problems after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Measurement properties of the HiMAT have not been tested in the mild ... -
Measurement properties of the Norwegian version of the Physical Workload Questionnaire (PWQ)
(MAFYS;2020, Master thesis, 2020)Background: The Physical Workload Questionnaire (PWQ) is a questionnaire based on an item pool of 26 items related to physical workload. The PWQ has recently been translated into Norwegian, but its measurement properties ... -
Measurement Properties of the Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale: A Systematic Review
(Frontiers in Psychiatry;April 2022 | Volume 13 | Article 744661, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-04-28)Objective: The Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale (SACS) was developed to assess mental health care staff’s attitudes to the use of coercion in treatment. The staff’s attitudes to the use of coercion may also influence their ... -
Measurement properties, feasibility and clinical utility of the Doloplus-2 pain scale in older adults with cognitive impairment: a systematic review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Background: The Doloplus-2 is a pain assessment scale for assessing pain in older adults with cognitive impairment. It is used in clinical practice and research. However, evidence for its measurement properties, feasibility ... -
Measurements of body fat is associated with markers of inflammation, insulin resistance and lipid levels in both overweight and in lean, healthy subjects
(e - SPEN: the European e-journal of clinical nutrition and metabolism;7(6), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Background & aims: Low-grade inflammation is associated with fat mass in overweight. Whether this association exists in lean persons is unknown. Aims were to investigate associations between anthropometric measures of ... -
Measures Used to Assess Treatment Outcomes in Children with Autism Receiving Early and Intensive Behavioral Interventions: A Review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This review is aimed at identifying assessment instruments used to measure treatment outcomes in children with autism spectrum disorder who received early and intensive behavioral interventions. Forty three articles were ... -
Measuring maternal health literacy in adolescents attending antenatal care in a developing country - the impact of selected demographic characteristics
(Journal of Clinical Nursing;24(17-18), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-03-12)Aims and objectives: The aim of this paper is to describe how selected demographic characteristics ‘explain’ the observed variance in the distribution of maternal health literacy estimates in adolescents attending antenatal ... -
Measuring Maternal Health Literacy in Adolescents Attending Antenatal Care in Uganda: Exploring the Dimensionality of the Health Literacy Concept Studying a Composite Scale
(Journal of Nursing Measurement;23(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-08-01)Background and Purpose: The purpose of this article is to test the requirement of “local independence” in the newly developed “Maternal Health Literacy” (MaHeLi) composite scale measuring health literacy in pregnant ... -
Measuring perceived outcomes from participating at a clubhouse for persons with mental illness: psychometric properties and associated factors
(Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy;Volume 26, 2019 - Issue 3, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-13)Background: The clubhouses are part of a growing international movement concerned with providing work-oriented psychosocial rehabilitation for people with a history of mental illness. Instruments used for measuring outcomes ... -
Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1
(The Lancet;Volume 398, Issue 10299, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-07-14)Background: Measuring routine childhood vaccination is crucial to inform global vaccine policies and programme implementation, and to track progress towards targets set by the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) and Immunization ... -
Measuring Staff Attitudes to Coercion in Poland
(Frontiers in Psychiatry;November 2021 | Volume 12 | Article 745215, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11-16)Introduction: Coercion can be defined as the use of force to limit a person’s choices. In Poland, coercive measures may tend to be overused. However, there is limited information regarding the attitudes of nurses toward ... -
Mechanical-stress-related epigenetic regulation of ZIC1 transcription factor in the etiology of postmenopausal osteoporosis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Mechanical loading exerts a profound influence on bone density and architecture, but the exact mechanism is unknown. Our study shows that expression of the neurological transcriptional factor zinc finger of the cerebellum ...